LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I
Date : 20-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
- Comment on the significance of any four of the following quotes:- (4*5=20)
- Ne let the same of any be envied:
So Orpheus did for his own bride!
So I unto myself alone will sing;
The woods shall to me answer, and my Echo ring.
- Nothing so sweet as magic is to him,
Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss:
- A little black thing among the snow,
Crying ! weep! weep! in notes of woe!
‘When are they father and mother? say!’
- Behold him while he is doing –it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equally he twirleth round the string! Now he is just done.
- Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
- If keeping holy the seventh day were a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
- Attempt any five of the following in about 150 words each :- (5*8 =40)
- Mephistopheles plays a pivotal role in the play ‘Dr.Faustus’ – Discuss.
- How does the poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ reflect a series of conflicts between reality and the romantic ideal of uniting with nature?
- Comment on the conceits employed by the poet John Donne in ‘Canonization’.
- Discuss the characteristics of a pastoral elegy as reflected in Milton’s ‘Lycidas’.
- Discuss Addison’s views of Sir Roger in Sir Roger at church.
- Critically analyze Bacon’s views on marriage and single life.
- Write a brief note on the role played by three milkmaids in Tess of the D’urbervilles.
- Estimate the character of Harriet in
- Write any two essays in about 350 words each :- (2 * 20 =40)
- Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’.
- Discuss the rise and fall of Dr.Faustus from an erudite scholar to a cheap trickster.
- Critically analyze Tess of the D’urbervilles as a tragedy.
- Consider Ivanhoe as a historical novel.